Althouse: "I do always listen to myself, discuss with myself... I do like to go in the mountains when it's very rough, to feel the nature scratching you. It's good, I think."

August 23, 2019

"I do always listen to myself, discuss with myself... I do like to go in the mountains when it's very rough, to feel the nature scratching you. It's good, I think."

19 comments:

Rory said...: There's a little island, Jan Mayen Island, that's way up north of Iceland. Norway owns it, but I don't know if it's for sale.

Some Norwegians tried to give Finland a mountaintop in 2017. It would have been the highest point in Finland, but the deal was kiboshed because of the Norwegian constitution or something.; 8/23/19, 6:18 AM
traditionalguy said...: Way back before domesticated animals all men had was one manpower bodies and running shoes.; 8/23/19, 6:22 AM
rehajm said...: Say hej to Luke Skywalker for us...; 8/23/19, 6:27 AM
Hagar said...: Almost a hundred years ago now, my uncle spent a year each on Jan Mayen and Spitzbergen as a radio operator on the weather stations there to make money for his tuition and board at NIH.

A story from Spitzbergen was that someone shot a polar bear and they ate bear steaks, roasts, etc., until my uncle opined that he had had about all the bear meat he could take. The cook, a German former professional boxer, told him that if he would spar with him, he could specify what to have for dinner the first time he could knock him out.
I don't think he ever did, but he continued to box after returning to school and won the Norwegian light heavyweight national championship.; 8/23/19, 6:37 AM
Darrell said...: Trump should buy the Faroe Islands.; 8/23/19, 6:40 AM
Howard said...: This seems extreme, but running/hiking on trails is the evolutionary muscle memory our bodies crave.; 8/23/19, 6:56 AM
Danno said...: If that is moss he is running on, one slip and he can kiss his candy-ass goodbye.; 8/23/19, 6:59 AM
stevew said...: Sponsored by Merrell? The shoe company?

Seeing a few of those scenes made my stomach go all flippy-floppy.; 8/23/19, 7:07 AM
Expat(ish) said...: I trained (many years ago) for a 50K and it involved a lot of six, eight, and ten hour running sessions. Amusingly the actual race took only 6:30.

But then I started training for a 50M race and I was getting to the trail at 6am and leaving at 8pm or 10pm just to get in the miles. Shorter runs were 6-8 hours each.

No matter how much music you have or how many books you've downloaded, you end up listening to yourself think a lot.

-XC

PS - I loved it. I also learned that with zero fat on my legs and ass I was not a super model.; 8/23/19, 7:55 AM
Andrew said...: That was really beautiful and inspiring. Thank you, Ann.

It's good to see that there are still authentic pastors out there, even in the older denominations. I hope the Faroe Islands never becomes woke.; 8/23/19, 7:56 AM
Sebastian said...: Ah, so civilization has come to the Faroes -- cameras, drones, leggings. Won't be long before the last Christian dies.; 8/23/19, 8:26 AM
BamaBadgOR said...: Thank you very much for posting this.; 8/23/19, 8:53 AM
wild chicken said...: "but running/hiking on trails is the evolutionary muscle memory our bodies crave."

When I was 7 I used to run up the hillsides around my home town. Light as a feather. Then we moved to the flatlands.

Life sucked after that.; 8/23/19, 8:55 AM
rcocean said...: These videos always make these places look so great, but they never show the rain, drizzle and fog. They do the same thing with Seattle or Ireland. Even spots in SF are fog bound or overcast 1/2 the year. Did Micheal Douglas or Karl Malden ever arrest someone in the Fog? Nope, it was always sunny (Filmed in Hollywood).; 8/23/19, 9:14 AM
rcocean said...: We not really made to run, we're made to walk. Some people can run long distances, but lots of us break down we knee/foot problems if we run too much. I envy people who can do it, but they're usually people who are built like long-distance bikers, narrow shoulders and little upper body mass.; 8/23/19, 9:16 AM
The Cracker Emcee Refulgent said...: "We not really made to run, we're made to walk."

Perhaps, but we are made to do much, much more physical activity than even the athletic among us ever do. On the other hand we're not really made to live as long as we do these days. I wonder what kind of evolutionary confusion technology will wreak. We probably won't have it long enough to find out.; 8/23/19, 9:45 AM
RigelDog said...: Wow that was amazing, compelling. Thanks!; 8/23/19, 9:45 AM
jim said...: Loved it. Fine expression of trail runner thinking. It is the most individual of sports.

A trail race is fine, but the best runs are through those desolate spots, in that lousy weather, and alone: that's when you get what you're looking for.; 8/23/19, 11:11 AM
Breezy said...: I kept wondering, why does he run?

Looks beautiful there.; 8/23/19, 5:48 PM